Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.

The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him.

Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.

Eternity is the Absolute present.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.